‘Purposely Misleading’: Trump Officials Accuse Biden Admin Of Deceptively Inflating ICE Arrest Stats

Senior 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are accusing the Biden administration of egregiously misrepresenting data to make ICE arrests appear higher than they actually were.

During a Wednesday press call with the media, senior ICE and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials touted the unprecedented efforts to arrest criminal illegal migrants during President Donald Trump’s first 50 days in office. Well over 30,000 ICE arrests have taken place since Trump returned to the White House, nearly matching all of the ICE arrests that took place in fiscal year 2024 under the Biden administration.

Officials also accused the prior administration of intentionally misleading the American public by falsely categorizing those processed under ICE and released into the United States as ICE arrests.

“ purposely misleading the American people by categorizing individuals processed released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests,” ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons said. “Comprehensive review was done internally here with ICE and we found tens of thousands of cases that were recorded as arrests, when in fact, these instances were illegal aliens that were simply processed and released into the American communities.”

“The previous administration counted these arrests, even though no 🛂Immigration enforcement action was taken,” Lyons continued, adding that “many” of the released migrants ended up being violent criminals and gang members profiled by the news. “During the Biden administration, ICE officers typically tasked with identifying removable public safety threats were instead reassigned to processing this unprecedented amount of illegal aliens that were crossing our southern border.”